Sentences with phrase «ton of ice»

A glacier is made up of thousands of tons of ice which is layered in sheets and covers miles and miles.

At a rate of 4 meters of ice loss per year, the ice sheet will shed 1,600 billion metric tons of ice annually.

No, nothing that interesting happened, but I enjoyed the sun and warm weather, ate tons of ice cream and rested my body and mind.

The simple controls are easy to figure out, and you'll be making tons of ice in no time.

This thick, creamy drink with vanilla and cinnamon tasted amazing when blended with tons of ice.

That is, 52 billion tons of ice loss!

We have satellite measurements showing we've lost 2 trillion tons of ice in the past 5 years, but you don't trust them because they're government satellites.

On its flight across the Pacific — the first for a balloon — the four - man crew battled violent storms and a buildup of two tons of ice on the balloon's surface, forcing them at one point to hover just 4,500 feet above the ocean.

Predictions made by British Antarctic Survey scientists in 1998 that the warming of the Antarctic Peninsula region would put several ice shelves at risk were realized in 2002 when, in less than a month, 500 billion metric tons of ice from the Larsen B ice shelf broke up into thousands of small icebergs.

NASA has found that Greenland is depleting about 287 billion metric tons of ice annually, while Antarctica, 134 billion metric tons.

Still another mom - to - be shared, «I've been drinking tons of ice water.

He eventually became the «Ice King,» selling thousands of tons of ice throughout the U.S. for iceboxes, which preserved food.

On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.

A major study of Greenland showed that the landmass lost 100 billion metric tons of ice between 2003 and 2005, a melt rate three times faster than that seen five years ago and one that could be contributing to sea - level rise.

Seventy billion tons of ice flows out of the Totten Glacier, into the ocean, every year.

Over 30 years, he and his rivals extended the «frozen water trade» to Cuba, Charleston, New Orleans, New York, and London, and finally to Calcutta, when in 1833 more than one hundred tons of ice survived a four - month voyage of 16,000 miles with two crossings of the Equator.

More back - of - the - napkin trivia — two trillion tons of ice over 5 years is roughly equivalent to the total discharge of the Mackenzie River, which flows directly into the Arctic basin, over a 6 year period (annual mean of ~ 10,000 cms).

Or the 75 billion tons of ice Alaska's glaciers are losing annually.

Greenland has gained 300 billion tons of ice since September 1, blowing away all records for ice gain.

Then, in February, a 1,250 - square - mile section — larger than Rhode Island — started splintering, and in just over a month, it was gone, sending billions of tons of ice floating into the ocean to melt.

Billions of tons of ice then drain to the sea from the glaciers.

About 500,000 tons of ice raced down a mountain.

Now that West Antarctica is losing weight — that is, billions of tons of ice per year — its softer mantle rock is being nudged westward by the harder mantle beneath East Antarctica.

Aaron and I had the best time hiking, exploring, and EATING (tacos tacos tacos, with tons of ice cream too!).

I mean if you really think about it, pies are not as huge and thick like cake with tons of icing, but not small like a cookie, almost the perfect dessert size.

The USGS reports that the state's glaciers are losing 75 billion tons of ice annually, equal to the amount of water needed to fill Yankee Stadium 150,000 times each year.

The team, led by earth scientists at Ohio State University, pinpointed a period in 2010 when high temperatures caused the natural ice flow out to sea to suddenly accelerate, and 100 billion tons of ice melted away from the continent in only 6 months...

For Antarctica as a whole, the study found the current rate of ice sheet mass loss to be about 160 billion metric tons of ice per year.

They also raise new questions about the future stability of West Antarctica's massive coastal glaciers, which are currently shedding billions of tons of ice per year.

Meanwhile, the ice sheet that covers most of Antarctica has lost more than half a trillion tons of ice in recent years.

We're investing in a ton of icing on top of a shrinking cake.

The melting adds between 120 and 140 tons of ice to the ocean, which scientists say will raise water levels globally anywhere from 1.33 to 1.5 inches each year.

One Hundred Tons of Ice, will be published in 2004 by Westminster John Knox.

But there's something about putting a whole ton of dates with another ton of ice cream that kind of bothers me.

3 Tbs unsalted butter 2/3 cup packed brown sugar 2 cups half and half (I just couldn't bring myself to use heavy cream when I knew I would eat a ton of this ice cream) 4 large egg yolks pinch of kosher salt 2 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 cups whole milk 1/2 cup mini-chocolate chips — I used regular chips and a lot less (as you can tell from the pics) but next time I will definitely use more

This was just okay right after churning but I made it four hours ahead to serve with pie and it formed a ton of ice crystals in the freezer.

Moreno and brothers Tony Moreno (bass player in «Frankie Moreno Live») and Ricky Moreno (songwriter & cast member in «Frankie Moreno Live»), along with Jennifer Lynn (lead violinist in «Frankie Moreno Live») spent one hour enjoying the 1,200 square feet and 80 tons of ice that Minus5 has to offer.

Five tons of ice are hauled in each fall for ski classes.

The ice - making machine has the capacity to produce some 30 tons of ice per day to preserve the catch, as against the previous capacity of 15 tons of ice per day, with the President expecting a substantial rise in the activities of our fisherfolk and traders in Sekondi, and in surrounding communities, following the completion of the Harbour.

The project, dubbed IceCube, will sink 4,800 photomultipliers — sensors that detect light — into a billion tons of ice, reaching one mile (2.4 kilometers) below the Antarctic surface.